| Hawk said: Too many people I've seen say a blanket statement that games don't age well. It depends on the perrson. I still play old games and absolutely love it. And I know there are others here that do as well. I played the old Zork text adventure just recently. And King's Quest I as well. I still love them. It all depends on the person. I want to try DiscWorld noir. I only recently learned there were more DiscWorld games beyond the first one. |
It's true, it depends on the person. But I think that the people that still enjoy old games are a small minority (i do include myself in some extend in that group). They're the exception to the rule. Because the vast majority of the people don't. And that's especially true for the ones that only became gamers for the recent years. It's true their are games that are still a lot of fun, like Tetris. But even Tetris had to get a graphic update to keep him fresh. Movies and especially music grow old a lot better than games. Even today when i listen to songs from the sixties like the ones from Bob dylan and others, i enjoy them as much as any song from today. And i wasn't even born then. Hell, i even enjoy the movies from chaplin. The same doesn't happen with games. There's a very good reason for that. The technologies that drives games, changes so fast, that it only takes a few years to make a huge difference between games. And so the age becomes very apparent. Technologie doesn't impact movie and music so dramatically that fast, which makes them not grow old that fast because the differences aren't so obvious.
